Christmas eve. 24.12.2012
The End of the World has gone by and we are still living. So Mayas were wrong about world ending at 21.12.2012. And now we are heading to Christmas eve.
This is first time that I won't be with my family at Christmas. Feels really weard to spent Christmas this way, but this won't be the last time. And I'll have really good opportunity to see different kind of Christmas than what we spend at our home at Finland. Back at IT Tralee I was invited to spend Christmas eve at one of my course mate home. So I accepted that and now I'm going to there.
At January I have only two test left and then school is over. And I'm also free to go back to home, but I decided to stay couple more days at here for to be able to see Dublin better. And when I get to home, then I have lots of photos to show to my family and friends. And ofcourse I need to write report about my exchange time. That will take some time, but that's not impossible thing to do.
Now when I'm starting to think about this exchange time at here Tralee, it has been rich and good, if we don't count that how many times I have been sick at this half year. But still. I have learned lots of new things while staying at here and I think that my English skill has improved somehow, at least I can speak much easier English now than before. Also from school I have gained some different kind of knowledge that I wasn't able to get back at college. Like Community Management knowledge, which has improved much. Also I have learned more things about photography, thanks to Photography course and ITT Photography Society.
Ofcourse I can't forget to mention about people who I have met at here. Huge variety of different kind of people, including those who share interest photography and airsoft, and also other erasmus students. Even thou I haven't been partying as much as other students, I have had my own changes to meet them and talk with them, either at school or at Freshers Week parties where I was taking photos for ITT Student Union.
Now when I think back at those days when I was unsure that was it good idea to apply for this erasmus program, now I can say for sure that it was really good idea even thou I had my own doubts about this time. It's not so different compared to that time when I moved to live alone. Only thing what was different was that everything was in English. And that it was really hard to get good rye bread from here. But now near the end I found one shop from Tralee that has rye flour. Would have been better if I would have found that earlier, but can't help.
